Comments by DonJosedelaGuerra

Tempest in a teapot. Who cares if the Newspress or anybody else says or writes 'illegals'...? Why so touchy? What's important is to clear up our system of controlling immigration. Are you for open borders? We need a visa system that covers all the options that make up a credible immigration system? Sure let's have some options for refugees. Temporary workers. Foreign students. Special cases. Talented engineers and scientists. I was amazed to see the other day that all the workers in the Minneapolis Airport were from Somalia. Fleeing Iranians are in LA. Vietnamese too. Plenty of Iraqi refugees too. The list goes on. So how come the Mexicans can't get in the game legally? Is it because they don't play by the rules? I don't have anything against Mexican immigrants. Just illegal ones.

You might like to know Sam, about my personal experience with the Chumash. In 1818, a French revolutionary name Hypolito Bouchard suddenly showed up with two warships loaded with cannon, and came ashore. He said: "You poor people, rise up and throw off your chains" (as French Revolutionaries often do!). The response of the Chumash was to form up in horseback cavalry to defend the Spanish settlement. Did you know that Sam?

In 1824, the Chumash did revolt but then THAT was after those Mexican revolutionaries had taken over.

Immigration is a necessary element of our nation's existence. The Statue of Liberty says: "Bring me your poor, your tired, your hungry". This was a gift from France at the end of the 19th Century. But certainly we want immigrants, we have always had immigrants. We NEED immigrants.

We should have a system that optimizes a true rational immigration system. We know some components. There are various categories of visas. Sometimes people need to immigrate because of natural disasters or political repression. Sometimes we should seek people who have certain talents. But an 'illegal' system of occasional mass amnesty is the worst of all possible systems that I can imagine. It encourages bad immigration. How come we can't rationalize this system into something more logical. Switzerland is pretty on top of controlling its borders and immigration and it's in the middle of Europe surrounded by swirling difficulties for centuries. So why are we so incompetent? This puzzles me. Giving amnesty for illegal behavior encourages more illegal behavior. It's obvious. We should have already learned this.

The Chicanos call this the 'Reconquista'...they have a "Studies" department at the University.

I say: "Fix the system"...permanently. We could even fix the University while we're at it. Let's go back to the Humanities out there and get back to the old Western Canon....

The folks in the History Department used to say that the Sociology Department was much better and inventing new words to describe old traditional issues.

Hey Nick, how many of these guys that get mentioned in your story belonged to that fake organization: "Veterans for Peace"? Most of these guys were masters at the co-optation strategy for campus and public protest in town.

The sociology department used to lead the way in all this but now, les pauvres, they've been left behind by the ....Studies departments. You fill in the blank.

If there is going to be a demonstration against the Newspress on my Plaza because of their headline that used the term illegal alien, this demonstration becomes, ipso facto, a demonstration calling for Press Censorship. I'm against this message and this demonstration for this reason. Therefore, I think we should form a counter demonstration that simultaneously calls for Freedom of the Press and Free Speech. No Free Speech mean No Liberty.

ah...Dolphinpod, long ago in this Republic of ours, one could say 'man', 'mankind' etc. and it was a generic for everybody....now we have 'humans' and 'zombies' and of course the shattered picture of humankind that divides us into the boxes of LGBT, and of course white (bad), colored (good) (...note that there are more sub-categories here), and how about immigrants, and indigenous, etc etc, the list goes on and on. And so it goes....(note how the University's Humanities have shattered into 'X' box...Studies majors....) All is shattered now into little tiny pieces in this civilization of ours and the center will not hold.

This Newspress 'headline' controversy reminds me that at a French newspaper today, Charlie Hebdo, Islamic Terrorists, just extinguished 13 journalists, for politically incorrect front pages and cartoons. Are we heading this way with the Newspress?...does Free Speech mean anything anymore?

I see the 'property is theft' and the 'eat the rich' crowd identify with the door busting immigrants. Interesting. Whatever happened to the idea of a nation of laws and not of men idea...?Thus saith Citizen Don Jose